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The new range of ANPR cameras completes the TruVision lineup with solutions to facilitate the management of vehicles. The S series ANPR cameras allow users to monitor or manage vehicle access on a site. The cameras can monitor and capture vehicles entering the premises or manage parking access for vehicles based on their licence plate. Wiegand interface The onboard relay outputs can be used to grant or deny access to a vehicle based on its licence plate. The Wiegand interface allows users...

Senstar, a provider of sensing and information management solutions for the protection of critical infrastructure, is pleased to announce its European expansion with the appointment of Gabriel Furtado as Regional Sales Manager position covering Spain, Portugal, and Italy. "Gabriel has helped Senstar develop various markets in North and South America,” said Alain Grinbaum, Senior Sales Director. “I am confident he will be successful in this new role. Gabriel's qualifications of being...

DigiCert, Inc., a global provider of digital trust, released its annual forecast of cybersecurity trends emerging for the new year and beyond. These projections authored by DigiCert experts Dr. Avesta Hojjati, Dean Coclin, Mike Nelson, Srinivas Kumar, Stephen Davidson, Steve Job, and Tim Hollebeek are based on shifts in technology, threat actor habits, culture, and decades of combined experience. 2022 State of Digital Trust Survey “These predictions come on the heels of our 2022 St...

Codelocks’ newly appointed Sales Director, Joanne Milne-Rowe, announces that access control provider - Codelocks is now extending its expertise to businesses who want to integrate the Codelocks NetCode® Technology into their solutions. This new initiative sees Codelocks experts working with businesses that need to provide timed access to buildings, lockers and storage facilities, to integrate the algorithm-based access control locks within their product offering. Extensive industry e...

LEAF is a new standard for identity credentials, providing an alternative to well-known platforms such as LEGIC or HID. Unlike these technologies, LEAF is an open platform created to support interoperability within the access-control market. That means end users could use their LEAF ID card, key fob or smartphone to unlock access via any LEAF-enabled reader. And because the LEAF standard is backward-adaptable with suitable existing reader hardware, moving to LEAF is easy and cost-effective for...

A recent Future Forum survey found that 58% of knowledge workers already follow a hybrid work pattern, “Flexibility is the expectation and increasingly the norm,” the report concludes. Further growth in flexible working is a certainty. These changing work patterns make flexibility in security ever more critical. Choosing the right access control solution will make a big difference. Office-based working, telecommuting, work-from-home (WFH), co-working spaces, and hotdesking: All thes...

i-PRO Co., Ltd., in professional security solutions for surveillance and public safety, announced its new NU-Series network video recorders (NVR), NDAA compliant with intel CPU. The new models are the successors to the NX100 and NX200 models and are available in four, eight and 16 channel configurations with in-built PoE(+) power and a slim form factor for easy installation. Plug-and-play recording With a focus on creating a plug-and-play recording option for smaller businesses, the NU-NVRs w...

Sielox, an established industry pioneer in layered access control solutions, has further enhanced the capabilities of its flagship Pinnacle™ 11.0 Access Control Platform with pre-emptive intelligence. Hundreds of user-selectable filters provide Pinnacle users with real-time data on virtually every aspect of access activity and system status, effectively transforming traditional proactive access control deployments into pre-emptive solutions for myriad physical security and business intell...

Lumeo, a designer of computer vision solutions, announces a flexible analytic that conditionally blurs objects such as faces, licence plates, and more to ensure that surveillance systems adhere to privacy and conform to legal requirements. Personal privacy Maintaining personal privacy is a pressing concern for all entities employing a surveillance system. In the past decade, more governments around the world are enacting new privacy laws which hold businesses accountable for how th...

Cobalt Robotics a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, fintech and energy tech companies in North America. Cobalt grew 979% based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth from 2018 to 2021. Cobalt also ranked No. 27 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Cobalt is propelling the use of robots among modern enterprises as companies look to new AI-based innovations to automate security and improve safety. The security robots designed by Cobalt perform ta...

PlainID, The Authorisation Company™, the provider of authorisation and policy-based access control, announces a strategic partnership with Dremio, the easy and open data lakehouse company. This partnership enables Dremio clients to leverage PlainID's central access control platform to manage and control access to data via Dremio, allowing for advanced access controls as part of their overall data security strategy. Simplifying data architectures The Dremio open data lakehouse delivers a...

Knightscope, Inc., a developer of autonomous security robots announces its anticipated revenue growth for the next twelve months and will be broadcasting the first video episode in a series titled “Rise of the Robots” across its social media platforms. Knightscope investors frequently inquire to obtain financial and statistical data on the Company’s progress. “Rise of the Robots” was created to share important Company updates with its investors and tens of tho...

A few minutes or even seconds decide whether a disaster or damage can be avoided or at least limited. Seeing more, better and earlier enables more effective action. MOBOTIX Thermal Detection can make a valuable contribution to this. It operates in three main areas: early fire detection at best, even before flames arise; quality assurance and process optimisation; and 24/7 security in object and perimeter protection, which is also GDPR-compliant. MOBOTIX p71 Thermal ECO camera The new MOBOTIX...

Sentry Enterprises, an identity transformation player across the physical and digital worlds, announces its expansion into the cryptocurrency market with the launch of Sentinel Wallet LLC. Sentinel Wallet LLC has created the Sentinel Cold Storage Crypto Wallet – the world’s first biometric wallet to complete an end-to-end security audit by a credentialed security lab to achieve the Common Criteria EAL5+ software certification on a certified EAL6+ silicon. It’s widely known th...

Following the successful EMEA rollout of its FlipX Standard indoor sensors in September, OPTEX, the sensor manufacturer, has announced the launch of its new Grade 3 FlipX Advanced series. Pyroelectric sensor OPTEX FlipX sensors feature a bespoke pyroelectric sensor for increased performance that adapts to the human shape, and a unique lens that can be ‘flipped’ to provide both wide and narrow detection in a single sensor. By simply rotating the lens through 180°, the sensor ca...

Dan DeMichele, Vice President (VP), of Product Management for LastPass, said “The latest wave of cyberattacks is a powerful reminder of their increasing sophistication. But there has been a significant target shift – Cybercriminals aren’t just coming for governments, large-scale enterprises, and critical infrastructure, individuals and SMBs are on their radar too." He adds, "The message is clear – everyone at every level needs to be prepared. The good news is that when i...

Sella Personal Credit (Sella) is launching a trial of a credit card with biometric recognition that, thanks to a small chip sensor, allows people to make payments using their fingerprint. Users can ‘authorise payment transactions by simply placing their finger on their credit card, securely and quickly’. New biometric card to secure payments Each customer of Sella Personal Credit is provided with a kit containing a special device (‘sleeve’) Deploying the new card, wh...

viisights, Inc., a pioneer in behavioural recognition video analytics that deliver real-time video intelligence, is rapidly increasing its dominance within the video analytics market for smart cities with its Wise™ product offering for public security, safety, environmental health and urban mobility. viisights’ innovative behavioural recognition video understanding technology adds AI-driven intelligence to existing security cameras to automatically detect developing safety and secur...

Matrix COSEC ARGO is an engineering feat designed with high-performance standards that revamps various organisations’ lookout towards security concerns, including securing their assets and employees. With the peak technological intelligence of the age, this biometric door controller, with a 3.5” IPS Touchscreen LCD and a sleek look, gives a visually impacting experience. With a super upgrade from the conventional devices available in the same range in the market, Matrix COSEC ARGO i...

Suprema, a global pioneer in access control and biometrics, shared its vision and future growth strategies at the three-day ‘Suprema Global Partner Program 22’ event from November 16 to 18 at Lotte Hotel Seoul. The theme of the event  The event marked the eleventh anniversary of the Suprema Global Partner Program. A total of 114 partners from 46 countries participated, representing companies from every continent. Suprema and its partners interacted with each other and shared i...

According to multiple surveys, "behavioural biometrics" and "behaviour recognition" have sparked a lot of interest in recent years. Once a sci-fi movie feature with only imaginable technology, it is slowly becoming a reality. Exciting and scary at the same time, depends on which end you are located at, behaviour recognition and identification will be more discussed in upcoming years. This post provides a basic overview of behavioural biometrics and behaviour recognition, as well as how they wi...

SailPoint Technologies, Inc., the pioneer in enterprise identity security announced that it had been recognised as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Governance Administration for Identity Security 2022 Vendor Assessment (doc #US47254121, November 2022). IDC MarketScape is a highly respected vendor assessment tool for the information and communications technology (ICT) industry, providing both quantitative and qualitative technology market assessments designed to help organisations make...

Biometric market pioneer Aratek is set to bring in a full suite of solutions for border control and digital identity to the 6th Border Management and Identity Conference (BMIC) in Bangkok, Thailand. “As cross-border mobility starts to pick up again in a post-pandemic world, Aratek’s innovative solutions will be at the forefront helping authorities do a better job at managing and controlling borders with the use of digital identity,” said Samuel Wu, Aratek’s VP for Intern...

Ambient.ai, the computer vision intelligence company transforming physical security, announced that it has been named to Fast Company’s second annual Next Big Things in Tech list, honouring technology breakthroughs that promise to shape the future of industries. Ambient.ai was named as a winner of the inaugural security and privacy category, which celebrates technologies that protect organisations and consumers against online and physical threats and privacy intrusions. Computer vision i...

DigiCert, Inc., a provider of digital trust, releases its 2022 State of Digital Trust Survey that finds that almost half of consumers (47%) have stopped doing business with a company after losing trust in that company’s digital security. If companies do not manage digital trust, 84% of their customers would consider switching, with 57% saying switching would be likely. Digital trust enables organisations and individuals to participate in the connected world with the confidence that their...

ADT Commercial, a premier provider of commercial security, fire, life safety and risk consulting services in the U.S., announced recently that Philippe Sawaya has been selected as its first-ever Director of Artificial Intelligence (AI). In his new role, Sawaya is leading company efforts in the development and deployment of AI with exceptional analytical capabilities to support the specialised needs of commercial customers across industries. Sawaya leads newly formed Artificial Intelligence tea...

Johnson Controls., the global pioneer for smart, healthy, and sustainable buildings, has officially launched OpenBlue Enterprise Manager (OBEM) on the Alibaba Cloud, deepening the collaboration between the two companies. Alibaba Cloud is a cloud computing and artificial intelligence service, provider. Sustainability Alibaba's Net Zero Cloud initiative is designed to "drive its carbon reduction, provide digital carbon reduction capabilities and support green technology innovation." The collabo...

Now with an Open API, Evolv Express® seamlessly integrates with the technologies such as Video Management Systems, Incident Management, Identity Management, Visitor Management, and Notification Systems. And with its Web API, users can ingest that information into their preferred analytics infrastructure. Venue security technologies Managing security technologies, staff, and the operational processes around both is a complex system embedded in a multi-layered security posture intended to k...

Sielox, an established industry pioneer in layered access control solutions, is featuring its latest security solutions at ISC East 2022, November 16-17 in New York City. Sielox’s flagship solution, the Pinnacle™ 11.0 Access Control Platform, will be available for demonstration at booth #841 alongside additional products including the AnyWare™ Browser-Based Mobile Access Control Solution, CLASS™ Emergency Notification and Response Solution and the all-new 2700 Intelligen...

Founded by a trio of highly experienced and well-known professionals with well over 100 years of combined experience in the physical security market, Active Intelligence is making its public debut at ISC East 2022 in booth 707. The company was founded in 2019 with a very ambitious goal of transforming video surveillance systems from reactive tools to preventive, proactive solutions. With the launch of ASTRA, AI-driven video solutions can now be applied to mainstream video security applications....